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  NOVANEWS « Protecting workers isn’t seen as priority Our communications are never private Published on 6 September 2010 in General. 0 Comments Tags: New Zealander, war on terror. Leading investigative journalist Nicky Hager, a New Zealander, regularly breaks tough stories that nobody else does, especially on intelligence matters. Take this piece from January 2010: Go to the heart of one of Telecom or Vodafone’s mobile phone exchanges and you’ll find the whole system – covering a quarter of the country – is run by a single computer, no bigger than a small freezer. Cables lead off to all the company’s cellphone towers and other parts of the network. A main cable, connecting all those phone users to the world, comes out the top of the computer and passes directly into a unit in the rack...

NOVANEWS Sunday, September 05, 2010 Not only in the Middle East "Over 15,000 domestic workers leave their families to come to Britain every year. Charities claim that many are not only badly treated but that they are living as slaves.  This report investigates the plight of overseas domestic workers brought to the UK, and enslaved behind closed doors by rich and powerful employers in the upper levels of British society." (thanks James) Posted by As'ad at 9:11 AM Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz Standards of CNN Look how CNN managed to label "Jerusalem Day" Posted by As'ad at 9:09 AM Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz HamasStan "Its security forces brutally eliminated organized opposition. PA ministries...

NOVANEWS July 5, 2010 by Ken O'Keefe Welcome to Orwell’s ‘1984’ ladies and gentlemen, where black is white, white is black, and the truth is nothing but a word. My 1984 reality is culminating with the United States and Israeli Governments treating me and/or charging me with being a “terrorist”. Americans worry not, you can sleep better at night knowing your “homeland” is being defended from the likes of me. And Israel, rest easy as well, it’s Ken O’Keefe and his Arab collaborators who are in the Mossad crosshairs. All kidding aside, I am a family man, with a beautiful family, a loving wife and baby boy, a boy who will be the biggest victim if his father is no longer in his life. How did I get here? Well my life is an open book, and one chapter includes meeting with people who resist wa...

NOVANEWS GILAD ATZMON ARCHIVE: Gilad Atzmon: On Jewish Loyalty We Offer Our Unconditional Jewish Loyalty (video) Blair's Journey: Questions before Charge by David Halpin FRCS Talking To The Wall Welcome to Sodom BBC Bias: Panorama Programme Exposed Lauren Booth- Letter to Israel (video) Gilad Atzmon: Give History a Chance (video) BBC Bias: The Gaza Freedom Flotilla (must watch) Artists for Gaza is Jazza Gilad Atzmon: Apropos ‘Peace Talks’ Learn more about the Nakba Monzer Zimmo: Palestinian recognition of Israel, a Jewish state – Why? Lauren Booth: An Al Quds day letter to Tony Blair. From Lauren Booth, in Iran. Gilad Atzmon: Bloody Memoir Learn More About Jewish Love James Petras:The State and Local Bases of Zionist Power in America Gilad Atzmon: The Lowe...

NOVANEWS Derry Journal 31/08/10 See also at http://www.troopsoutmovement.com/latestnews.htm Derry's Bloody Sunday campaigners were described by Mayor Colum Eastwood as a "beacon of hope" during a civic reception on Thursday evening. Over a hundred relatives of those killed on January 30, 1972, as well as many of those who were wounded on the day, were honoured during the Guildhall event. Opening the event, the city's Mayor, Colum Eastwood, praised all those involved in the "tremendous achievement" of the Saville Report on June 15 and described the Bloody Sunday families as "a beacon of hope" for people all over the world. "I hope you will all feel vindicated that the truth has come home at last," Mayor Eastwood added. In a rousing speech on behalf of the families and injured, campaigner M...

NOVANEWS August 31st, 2010 • Related • Filed Under Filed Under: Britain • Education • Magazine • Most read articles All across the country teachers, school staff and pupils are looking forward to the start of the new academic year. Alex Kenny, an executive member of the National Union of Teachers, looks the Tories’ ideologically driven plans for education and sets out how we need to fight them. The education industry represents the largest market opportunity for private sector involvement…. In the USA spending on 5-12 education is as large as the domestic auto industry. It is the largest segment of the education and the one almost entirely in the public sector. Clearly education offers new and lucrative opportunities…” Merrill Lynch Annual Report - 1999 We have to select: to ration the ed...

NOVANEWS Aug, 27 2010 When non-violent protest becomes impossible, what then? Israel imprisons and kills peaceful protestors continuously, this is but one example. EU slams Palestinian’s conviction – Categorized in Uncategorized TJP This is very untypical writing for me, sort of a poem, but I was happy with it so I share it here. You are among the conscious minority who can see amid the collective insanity of the masses who are blind. You have a heart and you use it for so much more then the simple necessity of pumping of blood. You are truly blessed yet this blessing is often lost in the illusions of popular culture. You have been given the greatest gifts of all, the gifts of life & humanity… and you are wise enough to exercise and nurture them. You are often ignored or vilified or ...

NOVANEWS August 26, 2010 Turkey (the government) still hearts Israel "Senior Turkish officials in Washington reaffirmed their commitment to maintaining friendly relations with Israel, Turkish media reported Thursday." Posted by As'ad at 11:55 AM Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz A lousy writer for a lousy newspaper Of course, An-Nahar does not complain about the religious police of the Maronite church in Lebanon.   "“The shock of the [surreptitious] suggestion was stronger than the initial rejection. [It was] commercial malice [under the pretense of] coexistence and respect for Muslims’ feelings. We simply refused the “forbidden bribery” and [said that] we would either have the wine in its [regular] glasses or we would leave the restaurant. Surp...

NOVANEWS The 22 June emergency budget is only the starter. George Osborne promised to cut spending in all government departments by 25 percent with the exception of health & overseas development.The Con Dem emergency budget will cost each family £450 a year through the increase in VAT to 20 percent.The Institute for Fiscal Studies rejects Cameron, Clegg & Osborne's argument that the budget was 'firm but fair' because it targeted rich and poor, pointing out the poorest 20 percent will pay the most. The state pension age has been increased to 66 - pension's minister Ian Duncan Smith has suggested it be upped to 70. George Osborne has said spending on education, transport & energy efficiency will be cut by even more than 25 percent in financial statement he'll make on 20 October. ...

Right to Work has called a national demonstration outside the Tory Party  annual conference on 3 October. David Cameron's party are meeting in Birmingham. We will assemble at 12 noon and, after a rally, the march will set off at 1pm. The demonstration is supported by three national trade unions, the PCS, NUJ and UCU, the Labour Representation Committee and a number of local trade union and campaign bodies. Labour MPs Jeremy Corbyn MP & John McDonnell MP, the general secretary of the PCS, Mark Serwotka, Romayne Phoenix of the Green Party, Dr. Jacky Davis from Keep Our NHS Public, Linda Burnip, campaign co-ordinator Local Housing Allowance Reform Group, a Greek trade unionist and Portuguese Left Bloc MP, Jorge Duarte Costa have already agreed to speak at the pre-march rally. Over the co...